Earlier there was news about the establishment of Russian tanks on wheeled platform “Boomerang”, said editor in chief “Homeland Arsenal” Victor Murahovskyy, who declared, The new wheeled tank can get a 125-mm cannon on a self-propelled anti-tank gun “Octopus-WYD” to GVA.
I think, It refers to the fighting compartment, used on a floating self-propelled anti-tank gun “Octopus-WYD”, which is made for Airborne, – fighting compartment with a 125-millimeter guns. Weight and size parameters of the crew compartment is quite possible to establish it on “Boomerang” – “Octopus” and “Boomerang” They are approximately the same weight class – said Murahovskyy.
The expert added, what “developmental work on the integration of the crew compartment on “Boomerang” It can be done in two or three years”. Speaking on the classification of the machine on the platform when equipped with an instrument gauge 125 mm, he noted, what “the machine can be called a light wheeled tank”.
expert said, that the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of 1990 of the year (Russia has suspended its action with 2007 of the year) wheeled vehicles fall under the definition of tank, if the following criteria are met: machine gun caliber should be over 75 mm, mass should exceed 16,5 tonnes, and the tower should rotate 360 degrees. He added, that according to this definition, “Octopus-WYD” weighing 18 t is a light tank, under it and get “Boomerang” with a new fighting compartment, but it will be informally to the Russian classification, TASS reports
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